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and one north bound travel lane each approximately 9.5 -feet in width with a 6.5 -foot parking lane on both the east and west sides of the street. 2) Currently parking along the west and east sides of Lawrence Street is predominately regulated 2 hour parking with sections on the eastside of the street allowing exception to the 2 hour parking regulation with a Zone E permit. Changing Lawrence Street to two- way traffic will not affect parking other than to reverse the direction of parking on the east side of the street. 3) from 2007 to 2015, there were forty-two crashes on Lawrence Street between West 7th Avenue and West 13th Avenue. One crash resulted in major injuries and eight crashes resulted in moderate injuries including one crash involving a person bicycling. Twelve crashes resulted in minor injuries and twenty-one crashes resulted in property damage only. 4) The land use along Lawrence Street is predominately single and multi -family residential with interspersed areas of General Service, Retail, Educational and Religious/Charitable land -uses. 5) Traffic volumes collected in September 2017 indicate that one southbound lane is sufficient to accommodate the existing ADT of 3,500 vehicles per a day traveling southbound on Lawrence near West 10th Avenue and 2,700 vehicles per day traveling south near West 12" Avenue. Two-way traffic operations may result in a slight increase in traffic volume, but will improve traffic circulation. 6) Establishing two-way traffic operations on Lawrence Street from West 7th Avenue to West 13th Avenue will: a) Reduce out of direction travel and provide greater connectivity of the street grid reducing vehicle miles traveled. b) Enhance safety by: i) Eliminating the threat to pedestrians crossing the street that one car stops, but a car traveling in the same direction in the adjacent lane does not. ii) Eliminating south bound vehicle weaving between lanes on Lawrence Street. ii) Eliminating the double left turn from Lawrence Street to West 13th Avenue which conflicts with pedestrians crossing 13th Avenue at that location. 7) Postcards were sent to property owners and tenants along the Lawrence Street corridor from West 7th Avenue to West 13th Avenue and neighborhood association leaders from the Downtown and Jefferson Westside neighborhoods were contacted asking for input on the City's proposal to establish two-way traffic operations on Lawrence Street from Administrative Order -- Page 2 of 5